Aims & Scope

The Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal is a double blind peer reviewed academic journal. The main focus of our journal is to encourage research from areas of social and environmental critique, exploration and innovation as well as from more traditional areas of accounting, finance, financial planning and banking research. There are no fees or charges associated with submitting to or publishing in this journal.

Our papers appear on both the ProQuest and EBSCO databases and our journal is listed with Cabell's and Ulrich's Directories.

AABFJ is an open access journal which appears on DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

We particularly encourage submissions from research students (especially PhD students) emerging scholars and early career researchers and aim to provide supportive feedback on all submissions.

Fields in which we seek articles include accounting; finance; banking; financial planning; third sector; environmental accounting and finance; articles on the history of accounting and finance; alternative research in accounting, business and finance; forensic accounting and critical papers in accounting and finance. We also welcome case studies, technical notes and book reviews on accounting, banking and finance topics.